Resignation Letter – Is it right?
This site has samples of different types of employment transactional correspondences. The more I observe people to people interaction, the more I am realizing that we all have quite significant communication issues.
As people our firm is working with get different careers, many of them have to do the dreaded putting in of their two week notice. I want to highlight a sample download for a resignation letter. To see the actual post, go here. Putting in your notice the right way will make the difference not in the immediate emotions of the situation but in the long term.
Bridges burned = ruined relationships. Let me give you an example of two different scenarios. Both of the which happened last week. Two individuals put in notice both in the same type of career discipline. The one was able to leave on quite impressive terms because they put in notice with the sample resignation letter in this post, was taken out to lunch by his peers, the department had a little going away party, the CEO of the firm gave him a personal and professional reference and is now content and at peace with himself. The other individual, who happened to be a more successful employee at his company did not use The Interview Guru recommended Resignation letter…received a counter offer from his employer (which if you are not familiar with counter offers then you should read this…CAREER SUICIDE), he did entertained the counter offer for a few days, pissed off a handful of people, no little party, no reference letter and now a burned bridge. Actually kind of like Lebron James. Because this person did not accept the counter offer, which I would agree with, he ended up ending a 5 year friendship with the CEO. The two have a vested interest together in a small company on the side and are both acting like little kids, not talking to each other, blaming one another for issues, etc.
Do it right. Use the resignation letter in this post. It does a good job of taking the personal and emotional aspect out of your decision. Feel free to share this nugget with friends going through the dreaded resignation process.
Keep you character in tact. Much success.
Darrin, The Interview Guru
Facebook comments:
February 6th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Hi,
I came across your blog when I was searching for something on google and read the
following post of yours below.
I thought you’d like to know of a misuse of a word that changes the whole meaning of
what you were intending. It’s the sentence, “I shared a tail of a friend of mine.” Tail
should be “tale”, as in a story about someone or something.
Hopefully you like to be told about something, like I do.
Kindest regards,
Patricia
5 Reasons Counter Offers Can Ruin You – Part 2
Posted on July 21, 2010 by admin
In a previous blog post Titled 5 Reasons Counter Offers Can Ruin You, I shared a tail of a friend of mine name Wendall.
February 7th, 2011 at 9:33 am
Thank you Patricia. I don’t mind to be told about typo’s like this. At least people are reading the posts.